[FFmpeg-devel] Handling CODEC_FLAG2_CHUNKS type H264 content.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:55:38AM -0700, Dale Curtis wrote:
> Some Chrome users ( http://crbug.com/415542 ) are encountering content
> which requires CODEC_FLAG2_CHUNKS to decode without the following error:
> 
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/h264.c;hb=HEAD#l1917
> 
> We haven't enabled this flag globally in the past since it disables frame
> level threading:
> 
> http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/pthread.c;hb=HEAD#l46
> 
> I have a couple questions on handling this type of content:
> 
> - Is the error returned truly an error or a warning? Ignoring it reveals
> decoding continues okay; though I have no idea if this is always true for
> chunked content.

it depends on how you see it

the decoder has as input 1 AU for each call, when the input is not a
AU thats more or less an error

for decoding the whole movie these instances of odd input are not
really errors in the case of this file


> 
> - Chrome currently only uses 2 threads for video decoding. I'll run the
> numbers soon, but generally, is frame level threading expected to be
> beneficial with only two threads?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> - dale
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